Bianca Nightengale-Lee

Dr. Bianca Nightengale-Lee received her Ph.D. from the University of Louisville in 2017. Her work studies the confluence of race, literacy, and culture, as it relates to socially conscious and humanizing curricular development. With articles published in Multicultural Perspectives, The Journal of Literacy Research, the Oxford Encyclopedia of Research, as well as the Bloomsbury Handbook of Hip Hop Pedagogy, she examines Afro-Indigenous pedagogical frames that characterize the preservation of liberation, identity, and self-expression for Black and Brown students.

Her authentic and humanizing approach has garnered awards from the Journal of Literacy Innovation, the National Council of Teachers of English, the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, and the Literacy Research Association. As a critically engaged community scholar, her work nests within academic, school, and community-based settings, where she works alongside teachers, community stakeholders, and youth to develop pedagogy relative to the lives and literacies of our most vulnerable student populations.
 

Dr. Nightengale-Lee is deeply committed to fostering equitable, culturally sustaining learning environments and mentoring faculty and students alike. She actively integrates her scholarship into practice through curriculum development, teacher professional development, and community-engaged programs, ensuring research translates into meaningful impact for learners and educators.